...London on the 27th, and at Bristol 17th January 1657. colonel on account of erroneous doctrine : " Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. . . . Take heed of being sharp, or too easily sharpened by others, against those to whom you can object...

...mitigate the struggle. Cromwell himself was capable of taking a largeminded view. ' Sir,' he exclaimed, ' the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.' Chillingworth and Hales were two of those of whom it may be said that toleration was, as it were, an...

...interest in the private concerns of the soul. 'Sir,' said Cromwell to MajorGeneral Crawford, a Scot, 'the State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinions, if they be willing to serve it faithfully ; that suffices.' Cromwell had the questions at issue discussed in Parliament...

...had cashiered a captain because he was thought to be an Anabaptist; whereupon Cromwell wrote to him: "Sir, the State in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinion : if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies." The intimacy between Williams...

...did not love the Covenant, and claimed a greater freedom in religion. " The State," said Cromwell, " in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve it,—that satisfies." " Take heed of being sharp against those to whom you can object little but that...

...family he was a man of moderation both in political and in religious matters. Oliver Cromwell held that 'the State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no...be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies'. But not everyone agreed with this view. In the confusion that followed the death of Oliver in September...

...to a Presbyterian officer who had dismissed a Baptist: 'The man is an Anabaptist . . . admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public? . . . Sir, the state, in choosing men to serve them, takes no notice of their opinions; if they be willing faithfully to serve them, that satisfies.'...

...irrelevant to the conduct of the war: "Ay, but the man is an Anabaptist. Are you sure of that? Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public . . . Sir, the State, in choosing men to serve them, takes no notice of their opinions, if they be willing faithfully to serve them, that satisfies....

...because of) its intense appetite for preaching and prophecy, did not insist on uniformity of belief. "The State in choosing men to serve it takes no notice of their opinion: if they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies."6 A nascent sense of the separation...

...Association, who had dismissed an officer for being an Anabaptist. Cromwell wrote to him: 'Admit he be, shall that render him incapable to serve the public? Sir, the state in choosing men to serve them takes no notice of their opinions, if they be willing ... to serve, that satisfies.' In September...